Sam King & Tara C. Trapani

What does it mean to hold sacred space—behind the scenes—for a movement?

In this soul-nourishing conversation, Tara C. Trapani and Sam King join Reflections on Religion and Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field to explore the deeply spiritual dimensions of administration, storytelling, and inner leadership. As longtime collaborators on the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and the Journey of the Universe project, they offer rare insight into the hidden labour of sustaining transformational work in ecology and spirituality.

From Tara’s decades of sacred logistics and ancestral remembering to Sam’s interfaith storytelling and creative pedagogy, this interview unveils the ecology of relationships, rituals, and unseen threads that hold this field together. Together, they reflect on vocation, humility, and what it means to support movements without always needing to be centre stage.

This is a conversation about devotion—both cosmic and practical.